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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

And Barry outlaws such machinery (if he can,.... and the big question: if our legislators will roll over and let him...)...

What are you gonna do?

Bury 'em in the backyard? (We will get to that later).....

Turn 'em in like the Australians did?

Really, what are ya gonna do?

A lot of New Yorkers chose to Not Comply with the "Safe Act"...
Now, apparently, (and, illegally, I think) somehow the NY State Police have 4473's....the better to knock your door down with a search warrant some evening....

Unless you have done a great job of hiding 'em, they'll find 'em. And charge you...and fine or incarcerate you. Best have a plan and have 'em (and the ammo) hidden well.....very well.

I, for one, believe that if the time has come to hide/bury those firearms, then it is past time to use 'em instead....

But I have also taken the time over the years to make several cache areas....some near my home, some elsewhere....in order that I have options and time to plan.

All cache areas are well salted with scrap iron. Steel and aluminum washers, short (and long) bits of rebar, and allthread....some an inch long, some a foot or two....some 16 and 20 inches long. Lots of buried wire that is (oddly enough) about 20" long...the same general length of a barrel and receiver. lots of aluminum cans and small blocks of aluminum.... Lots of empty cases buried or pushed into the ground. sometimes in groups of 20 or 30....(I pick 'em up from the trash at the public ranges)...even a few buried ammo boxes here and there....

How many false positives before the searchers give up? How many pieces of 3/8" or 1/4" steel pipe buried in PVC tubes before they choose other locations? (A posthole digger is your friend here, BTW.... And this is work. Hard work) I'm not saying that ground penetrating radar wouldn't be an aid to them, but I have done can do a lot to make even that form of detection harder.....

So. Can. You.

Laying false trails makes 'em waste valuable manpower...and if they are wasting time on your well-seeded possible stash areas, they aren't looking at your neighbors or compatriots. ....Giving them time to do something. Even giving them time to think how hard they are willing to resist.

Next time you go to the hardware store/Lowes/Home Depot, ask the plumbing department for their mistakes and cutoffs......Might be you can walk out with a bunch of scrap for nothing...Seed several areas. Same-same with your neighbors recyclables. Your workshop scrap? Same-same...

Yes, it is littering. Done in a good cause.

I figure over the years I have left thousands of false triggers for the metal detectors and GPR in many areas. Some also have the cache ready for when I need 'em. Some are ready to receive the stash when the time comes.

Are You Ready?

Or will you knuckle under? Be like the Australians in 1996? Have your freedom taken from you because of one incident used by socialist politicians who want to control you?

Plus, Note that Kalifornia can now take your weapons "Just Because"....and you don't get any notice they are in court to do so....no chance to face your accuser or defend yourself until AFTER the confiscation has taken place....... I think if I lived there, I'd have already buried one or two.....if I absolutely HAD to live in that state......

Monday, December 28, 2015

Drove from NW Indiana to East Lansing Michiganistan today....and back.

Rain when I left.

Turned to freezing rain just past the state line. Then sleet. Rain, sleet. Ice, Freezing rain/Ice....then snow. Then more rain then sleet ....then snow.

Then, for the last 30 miles, nothing. Ran about a 50 MPH average where I often run 75

Loaded up my elderly passenger and his possessions, (in the sleet) and then made for home.

Sleet/slush/snow/rain...in every combination.

'Twasn't the roads, but the friggin' PEOPLE that made the drive so bad. Yes, it was slikkery, but I can deal with that. The morons? Not so much. 30 MPH on the interstate? Dude, get off the road. Fer sure, get out of the LEFT LANE. Don't be too skeered to pass the truck, either pass it or fall back and run behind it....But don't block the lane for the following 2 miles of people that can't get past you...

Grrr. 39 MPH AVERAGE...where 55 or 60 would have been safe much of the time.

But got my passenger to where he needed to be, safely, if a bit late.

So all is good.

But I HATE the first real weather because of the fools that cannot deal with it.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

It is a good thing that I (a legal Concealed Carry license holder and owner of many firearms**) am NOT the psychotic, bloodthirsty, maniacal murdering person the anti-gun people say I am......

Or the carnage when mingling with the rude, stupid, apparently psychotic and uncaring Christmas shoppers (and those driving to and from their Christmas errands) would have been incredible and spectacular. ....You'd be reading it on CNN right now.

But I am not, and you aren't.

**(I actually lost all but 3 in a tragic canoe accident just last week)

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

I mean, forget that such action would be precedent setting, and would, really, destroy the US, by destroying the foundation of this country....

READ THIS At the end of the day, it'd be hard to get 10%. And many of those folks who stockpile ammo aren't looking for a war, but they can bring one if that is what it takes. Yeah, we are all fat and out of shape, but there are a LOT of us. And we (some of us at least) can shoot. Well. Some very well. Rifle or pistol. I ain't the best, by any stretch.....but I am pretty good. Lots better than me.

And yes, I AM willing to fight for my freedoms..

The cops may be "Trained Professionals" but they aren't up to this task. And I strongly doubt the National Guard would do much besides refuse to follow those orders.

These fools have dreams, but they have no concept of reality. They judge us from what they see of themselves. They aren't willing to get their hands dirty(but are willing to pay others to do it)......We are willing to get our hands dirty.

Monday, December 14, 2015

I ordered a laser grip for my small pocket pistol....Lipstick on a pig, you say? Maybe.....But yet:

Sadly, some places I go to, I just can't carry that Para-Ordnance LDA 3" .45 with great big 3 dot tritium sights and a spare magazine. Just doesn't work.

And yes, I do believe that if you are gonna carry a gun, if possible it should be in a caliber that starts with "4" and all that (not that I'd feel undergunned with modern 9mm rounds)....But still....

And, of course, if I knew I was gonna need a gun, I'd not go there at all, or if I had no choice, I'd carry a rifle or a decent shotgun.

Most of the time, I'd prefer to open carry a .357 revolver or a full size 1911 in a decent retention holster... (I actually have a most excellent 1911 drop leg holster made by Michael Hast for me a few years ago, but where I live it makes people nervous...so I don't wear it out much...)

So I carry concealed and as big a gun as my destination and activities allow....Either a short 1911 or a .32 Beretta Tomcat.

Laugh if you want. I haven't found a decent 9 mm that is significantly smaller and more concealable than that 3"Para that I can shoot well. There are many 9mm pistols that I like, but not small enough to make the difference in concealability.....Not and have a decent enough trigger or grip (Or be safe enough) that I can shoot 'em well enough to want to use other than except in a last chance situation. Same same with the small .380's. Not much gun, poor triggers or worse grip ergonomics. First shot ok,...maybe. Second shot likely low (or, oddly, for the LCP, high and right)... Then there is the whole 'No safety except on the trigger" trend in modern striker fired handguns.....I'm old school. I like either a really long DA trigger pull or a safety other than the one on the bang switch trigger of a Glock or M&P...

So sometimes I carry a Beretta Tomcat in .32. (wish they made one in .380!) I can hit what I aim at with the thing consistently, it carries well, and the sights are as good as any pocket pistol out there, if not better than most. Not target sights by any means, but significantly better than the sights on my TCP or my LCP or my LC9.

Yes, I know, .32 doesn't begin with "4" and all that. Having said that, modern ammo has come a long way. And the .32 all steel framed gun is a hell of a lot heavier and more controllable than those fantastic plastic (and very very slim) .380's or 9mm's. I can shoot it, and shoot it well. The Gold Dots that I feed it are a hell of a lot more effective than the original ball....

And remember, that .32 ACP in my belt beats your .45 in your car or that .357 in your home in your nightstand.... When I need it. If I ever do.

Having said that, I felt that since ISIS and the other radical Jihadi Aloha Snackbar types are increasing their activity worldwide, it might be that I would need all the help I could get with the short sight radius of the Tomcat.....

(Now I gotta get another holster, 'cause the grips don't git well in the Stoner Holster that I currently have)....But the grips work well, and that laser is fairly bright. Indoors, it'll help. Outdoors, at reasonable distances, it will be better than the sights that are on the gun.

I figure we are all going to need every advantage with a pistol, especially a conceal;able one, if we are gonna ever have to go up against Johnny Jihad with and AK or an AR......Not likely to happen, but a lot more likely than when I first began carrying a gun 30 years ago...then it was more likely to be an "Urban Yoot" intent on evening the score for all the discrimination his grandaddy endured......

Thursday, December 10, 2015

So the Feds banned cold medicine in any quantity,,,Now ya gotta show an ID to buy more than 4 or something........and, as far as I can tell, it didn't impact the supply of meth one tiny bit. Did inconvenience the rest of us though....

Sound familiar?

Rumor has it that Barry is gonna Do Something About Guns via executive order. Bet it works as well as cold medicine limits....

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

When was the last time you went to the range? Did more there than stand and punch holes in paper at a set distance?

Now, the chances of any of my readers (or me) ever having to face a Jihadi in our normal daily travels is remote.

Same Same ever having to defend ourselves with a firearm.....unless we are stupid and go looking for trouble.

But "remote" is NOT ZERO.
It would appear that the chances of meeting a Jihadi on American soil are, in fact, slightly increasing. (when I was born in was very close to zero. I would say that since the mid 60's it has, in fact doubled about every 5 years)..

The chances are still not high.....

But consider this, If and When:

Also: Who is more committed...Him, or you? He is likely better equipped, but that only goes so far...

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

14 guns per 1000 residents. Lower than I had thought, but we have all those "Blue" metro areas (where most guns are in the hand of Obama's sons, and likely not counted) and a significant number of other Blue enclaves where the resident would pee themselves if they ever saw a firearm not on the belt of a Policeman...

Because some people used some weapons in a manner that is illegal, everyone who owns such weapons must suffer....

Freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution should be curtailed.

We should use as a litmus test a list that is arbitrary, that is generated by bureaucrats, with essentially zero right of appeal (and no notification that you are even ON the list).... and no right to face your accuser or a trial or Due Process....
A list that the perpetrators of the last two muslim terrorist incidents weren't on....

We need to do something about these Muslim Extremists (who are a small part of Mohammemdisn) who use a twisted interpretation of the Muslim Faith (even though they take the words of the Koran literally).....

We have to fight ISIL, and other extremists......

But Barry failed to suggest that what we really need to do is to cut off the source of funds for these extremists.....which (mostly) come from oil revenues in the Gulf states.....
(We could easily damage those revenues by placing a surtax on all gulf oil....say a 10 or 20 percent sales tariff on oil from those origins.....)

There should be no religious test for immigrants (even though we currently make it easy for Muslims and very, very hard for Christians and Copts, who REALLY are the refugees).....

If the kids wish to do their live Nativity scene, then isn't that "the free exercise thereof"? I would have an objection if the children of, say, a Muslim family were required to participate in any portion of the Christmas pageant Holiday presentation....But if the children wish to do so, and their parents have no objection, then......what, exactly, is the deal? (We all know it is a Christmas pageant, even if they have renamed it)

Perhaps a statement before the pageant declaring that this is a volunteer presentation and In No Way endorses this religion as a State Approved religion?

Thursday, December 3, 2015

I don't know the reason for the massacre in San Bernadino. Maybe religious, maybe not. Maybe a planned attack, perhaps not. I dunno.

But think of this:

Most of my readers own rifles. Many of us even own "Assault" type rifles....

Most own pistols.

Most of us could leave a "Holiday Party" angry, go home and return with said firearms. (Not that any of us would.)

But how many of us have IED's laying about?

How many of us have the PARTS for IED's laying around?
How many of us could, in less than an hour, come up with 4 such devices?

I mean, I have maybe a half pound (or less) of FFG because I own a flintlock, but I don't have the rest of the makins' for an IED at hand.....much less 4 of them.....I doubt many of the rest of my readers do either.

Strange that. Almost like it was planned....

Religion of Peace? Really?

ETA: 12:45PM. There is THIS as well...."I don't think they just ran home, put on this type of tactical equipment, came back and started shooting"

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

I mean, here it is, First of December and the daytime highs are in the mid 40's.....

But this warm temperature is, oddly enough, causing me to burn a lot of gas for heating (a lot, at least, for me....)

See, at anything over 25 degrees F outside temp, it is essentially impossible to make a small enough fire in the woodstove to not have the inside of the house over 75....then one has to open a window to cool the house off.....which goes against my grain...

Waste wood? I cut stacked, split stacked, moved and restacked all that wood in the basement. I can't accept wasting it.

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Just a normal middle American middle class guy. I own my own business, employ a few people, and try to make a buck. In my (slight) spare time, I read a few blogs, shoot a bit, and rest.